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Heat pump modeling

Abstract

In the near future, heat pumps will start to flood the heating market. More generally, a market of systems usable for both heating and cooling is beginning to impose itself. This can be achieved by vapor-compression cycles, absorption cycles or others. The detailed models presented here can be applied to heat pumps or cooling systems. This report on ``heat pump modeling`` should be very open regarding the diversity of systems and components. As for now, it gathers component models usable to build a vapor compression cycle. - as long as it does not cause major modeling problems or numerical troubles, the real behavior of the refrigerant was approached by the mean of the Martin and Hou equation of state; only pure (single component) refrigerants are examined. Nevertheless, the REFPROP database (N.I.S.T.) can be used. Moreover it gives the ability of choosing refrigerant mixtures as working fluid. - hermetic compressor; heat transfer between components inside the shell are taken into account; pressure losses along the fluid path; polytropic and non adiabatic compression. - capillary tube as expansion device; homogeneous model considering the thermal non-equilibrium between the superheated liquid and the saturated vapor within the two-phase flow part; the sound speed has  More>>
Publication Date:
Dec 01, 1992
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
EDF-93-NM-00040
Reference Number:
SCA: 320106; PA: FRC-94:001757; EDB-94:063592; NTS-94:013840; SN: 94001165118
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Dec 1992
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; HEAT PUMPS; SIMULATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; COMPRESSORS; CAPILLARY FLOW; HEAT PIPES; REFRIGERANTS; COOLANTS; VALVES; TWO-PHASE FLOW; 320106; BUILDING EQUIPMENT
OSTI ID:
10143132
Research Organizations:
Electricite de France (EDF), 92 - Clamart (France)
Country of Origin:
France
Language:
French
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE94749211; TRN: FR9401757
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only)
Submitting Site:
FR
Size:
76 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 05, 2005

Citation Formats

Ranval, W, Rongere, F X, and Winkelmann, F. Heat pump modeling. France: N. p., 1992. Web.
Ranval, W, Rongere, F X, & Winkelmann, F. Heat pump modeling. France.
Ranval, W, Rongere, F X, and Winkelmann, F. 1992. "Heat pump modeling." France.
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title = {Heat pump modeling}
author = {Ranval, W, Rongere, F X, and Winkelmann, F}
abstractNote = {In the near future, heat pumps will start to flood the heating market. More generally, a market of systems usable for both heating and cooling is beginning to impose itself. This can be achieved by vapor-compression cycles, absorption cycles or others. The detailed models presented here can be applied to heat pumps or cooling systems. This report on ``heat pump modeling`` should be very open regarding the diversity of systems and components. As for now, it gathers component models usable to build a vapor compression cycle. - as long as it does not cause major modeling problems or numerical troubles, the real behavior of the refrigerant was approached by the mean of the Martin and Hou equation of state; only pure (single component) refrigerants are examined. Nevertheless, the REFPROP database (N.I.S.T.) can be used. Moreover it gives the ability of choosing refrigerant mixtures as working fluid. - hermetic compressor; heat transfer between components inside the shell are taken into account; pressure losses along the fluid path; polytropic and non adiabatic compression. - capillary tube as expansion device; homogeneous model considering the thermal non-equilibrium between the superheated liquid and the saturated vapor within the two-phase flow part; the sound speed has been chosen as the critical flow criterion. - heat exchanger model also usable for evaporators and condensers; a discretization of the exchanger is needed; the number of elements can be dramatically reduced as soon as the locations of flow changes are approximately known; temperature evolution can be linear or logarithmic. Validation work has to be performed for each of the components before running simulations for heat pump cycles. These components were partly implemented in SPARK, Simulation Program Analysis Research Kernel, a simulation environment developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. They will also be part of the model library of CLIM2000. (author).}
place = {France}
year = {1992}
month = {Dec}
}